Re: Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

0GbE cards do iSCSI processing in "silicon". On 2/19/2010 10:06 AM, Vincent Fox wrote: > You're the first person I've read using iSCSI though doesn't > that add a bunch of latency? And 7200 RPM SATA to boot. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com Cyrus Home

Re: Performance and cheap storage

re is a third 10G card available that is decidedly Windows only. > I'd be more inclined to think the QLogic card will be supported in > *BSD systems sooner than the Adaptec. That is my assessment as well. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.

Re: Performance and cheap storage

e cards iSCSI is a CPU hog. Sadly, a second CPU (or an upgrade to dual-core CPU) is cheaper... -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: hardware recommendations for MURDER?

than the integrity of the metadata. ext3 is perfectly safe, but you better make darn sure you use the 'sync' mount option with XFS or JFS, otherwise they'll eat your data on an unclean shutdown. Since you mention you're going with RHEL4 it's a moot point - the

Re: hardware recommendations for MURDER?

ould be great if you're going to enable SSL. OS-wise I would go with RedHat Enterprise or Novell's SuSE Enterprise, but if you are more of a *BSD guy that will work as well. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wik

Re: Mailstore filesystem

(5x 36GB) for our mail spool containing approx 65GB of data and approx 5.9 million messages (well, really 3.9 million once you count the single-instance message store)... our disk space is being used up faster than the FS inodes. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyr

Re: HOWTO: Mailbox Restore

ruct it works. > > > That's bizarre. Which filesystem is this, ext3? The software doing the backup and restore may have stripped off the periods. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.e

Re: Duplicated messages in INBOX

are stored on the IMAP server you don't need to delete anything. Removing the cron job to purge 10-day old messages will partially solve this problem. Getting your client to think in terms of server-side mail storage will be the rest of the solution. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Backend-storage on NFS?

esn't matter if a single machine is using the volume or multiple machines are using the volume - the file locking mmap()/read()/write() combinations still don't work correctly. You still end up with a corrupted mail store requiring the use of 'reconstruct'. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL P

Re: Backend-storage on NFS?

, and most of them have run into problems with locking and mmap()/read()/write(). Check the list archives. Really, this has been covered several times in the past. Check the list archives. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki

Re: Outlook Express and IMAP folders

utton -> Select "IMAP" tab -> Enter folder name for "Sent Items" However, the folder you use for your sent mail ("Sent Items" is the default) *must* be a top-level folder, period, regardless of whether you have altnamespace and/or unixheirarchysep e

Re: Outlook Express, Cyrus, and altnamespace

sions of Outlook. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: imap scalability

Andrew Morgan wrote: > Wasn't there an entry in the Cyrus Wiki at one point for a list of the > current hardware configs that people were using with Cyrus? I can't seem > to find it now... http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/SampleCyrusHardware -- P

Re: Migrating Cyrus-IMAP to a different server?

s manually :( (I was migrating from UW-IMAP to Cyrus at the time) -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html

Re: Remote User's SMTP relay authorization

e 1025, or 2025, etc..) which ONLY does SMTP AUTH relay. RFC 2476 defines port 587 as a message submission port for such occasions. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.ed

Re: Performance question...

. It's probably related to why hmh uses skiplist for mailboxes.db in his Debian packages of Cyrus 2.1, and why Rob Siemborski recommends skiplist for the mailbox and seen state databases, as he notes in the Wiki: http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/WhatDatabaseBackend --

Re: Authentication error SOLVED

SASL via PAM and via LDAP direcly. Same problem. I don't know why that problem happens. There is no an appearant cause. Basically, you have: Cyrus 2.1 -> SASL 2.1 -> OpenLDAP 2.0 -> SASL 1.5 -> segmentation fault. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Postfix, SASL/SASL2 and LDAP

custom binaries. Option 1 definitely works, but is a non-trivial change. Option 2 may the easier of the two for you. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Huge Inbox

noatime" in the file system mount options makes a big difference. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PostgreSQL backend: a waste of time?

s, in my case) and don't want to waste time trying to learn & set up another. A weird, maybe even stupid idea: if Nicola is going to "port" the patch to another database, port it to unixODBC. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: add user script?

need to delete a user, but it shouldn't be too hard to add that. It can be downloaded from http://www.optimumdata.com/~phil/cyrus-users.pl. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED]